Are you a primary school teacher teaching maths, sport, music or other subjects through English? Are you thinking about trying it? Then this webinar series is designed specifically for you.
Join us for four 60-minute webinars in November 2024 which will provide practical advice on creating dynamic CLIL primary lessons.
The free webinars will be held on Zoom and will be led by trainers from Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE). Teachers who take part live or watch the recordings in the 7 days after each session will receive a certificate by email in December.
Session 1: Increasing student production in English Primary CLIL classrooms. Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 5.30pm-6.30pm French time
This webinar provides guidance and support for English Primary teachers facing the CLIL challenge. We will explore the world of CLIL in English Primary classrooms and identify key aspects of its methodology which combines the inclusion of school subject topics, the development of students’ thinking skills and English learning.
We will share practical tips, insights, resources and activities to take back to our classrooms. We will introduce collaborative CLIL activities which have a playful approach to learning to get students interested, are cognitively demanding to support learning to think, use graphic organisers to scaffold language learning and engage students in performative tasks to foster oral production. We will link these activities with a variety of multimodal teaching materials (videos, content-based texts, picturebooks, realia) which appeal to modern-day learners.
Session 2: The Different Languages of CLIL: Language use in the CLIL classroom. Tuesday 12 Nov 2024 5.30pm-6.30pm French time
A good CLIL plan should combine elements of the 4 Cs: Content, Communication, Cognition and Culture. In this session we will stop at Communication to focus on how language is used to learn, while the language is being learnt. We will look at the different types of languages in CLIL, with learners actively applying basic communication skills, subject-specific language, academic language and peripheral language within a dual-focus classroom, as well as discussing the place of L1 in the learning process.
Session 3: Teaching heterogenous groups in CLIL primary classes. Tuesday 19 Nov 2024 5.30pm-6.30pm French time
Our classes are becoming more diverse and as teachers, we want to create a safe environment for all of our learners. Throughout this session, we’ll explore diversity within ourselves and our surroundings whilst understanding each learner’s unique background and needs. We’ll look at planning lessons considering varied learning styles, language levels and needs, and practical support strategies to make CLIL accessible to all. We’ll also see simple ways to adapt and create inclusive materials that foster collaborative learning and ensure everyone feels valued, as well as, different assessment options to offer equal opportunities for all our learners to shine.
Session 4: Right on target: Assessment for learning, as learning and of learning in the CLIL primary classroom. Tuesday 26 Nov 2024 5.30pm-6.30pm French time
Assessing learners’ progress is a process that requires careful planning and implementation. Assessment can be even more challenging in a CLIL setting since this dual-focused approach promotes both content and language mastery. In this webinar we will explore effective ways to embed assessment in our teaching practice in a CLIL context. We will start off by looking at the power of setting and sharing learning objectives with learners to promote self assessment and how to incorporate successful practices to assess our learners’ progress for formative and summative purposes. This session will be highly interactive to give participants the chance to develop assessment strategies that they can adapt for different classes at the primary school level.